Elon Musk denies reports of affair with Google co-founder's wife
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New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday came down heavily on reports that he had an extra-marital affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin's wife Nicole Shanahan. He completely denied the reports, calling them "total bs" and also slammed American publication The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) for "repeated attacks" on him and his company Tesla.
"This is total bs. Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night! I've only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around. Nothing romantic," Musk wrote on Twitter.
Musk and Brin were close friends until the affair, the report said.
Brin had filed for divorce in January citing "irreconcilable differences," and claimed he and Shanahan had been separated since December 15, 2021.
The WSJ report said: "The liaison with Mr. Musk took place in early December 2021, at the Art Basel event in Miami...Art Basel is a multiday, annual festival that draws wealthy attendees from around the world. At a party. Musk dropped to one knee in front of Brin and apologized profusely for the transgression, begging for forgiveness, according to people with knowledge of the incident."
Brin was reportedly among the first people to be given a Tesla car when production got off the ground, and the Google co-founder gave Musk $500,000 in 2008 to keep Tesla afloat during the global recession sparked by the US subprime mortgage crisis.
The alleged affair came several months after Musk had broken up with his girlfriend, singer Grimes, with whom he shares two children. Not only this, a few weeks ago, several reports surfaced online that said Musk had secretly fathered twins in November 2021 with Shivon Zilis, an employee at Musk's company Neuralink.
Musk is also locked in a legal battle with Twitter after he dropped a bid to buy the microblogging company.